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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 16, 2012) – All the news about U.S. men's volleyball players in the U.S. and around the world.
Three U.S. men's Olympians have been participating in the FIVB Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar, however only one has advanced to the semifinals.
U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) has been playing for Al-Rayyan Sport Club of Doha during the tournament while libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) has been playing for Al-Arabi of Doha. U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) has been competing for his Russian Super League team Zenit Kazan.
The eight teams competing in the championships were broken into two pools with the top two teams from each pool advancing to the semifinals.
Anderson and Kazan (2-1) defeated Egypt's Zamalek (0-3), 25-13, 25-19, 25-14, in their final pool play match on Oct. 17 and finished second in Pool B. On Oct. 15, Anderson had his best match, leading Kazan with 22 points in a loss to PGE Skra Belchatow, 21-25, 25-23, 17-25, 25-19, 15-10. Anderson scored on 18 kills, one block and three aces.
Anderson finished pool play ranked second in kills among all players in the tournament, having completed 35 out of 61 for a kill percent of 57.4. He is fourth in total points with 47 on 35 kills, six blocks and six aces.
Pool A completed play on Tuesday and Lee and Al-Rayyan will not advance after finishing third. Lee had his best match in a 25-23, 23-25, 25-16, 25-22 loss to Brazil's Sada Cruzeiro. Lee led the team with 12 points on nine attacks and three blocks. Overall, he finished pool play tied for fifth among all blockers with six for an average of .5 per set.
Pool B teams completed play on Wednesday. Lambourne and Al-Arabi (1-2) will not advance after finishing third. On Oct. 14, Lambourne had his best match in a 25-22, 25-22, 29-31, 25-18 loss to Zenit Kazan. Lambourne finished with 12 digs and 23 excellent receptions.
Lambourne leads all diggers in the competition with 29 for an average of 2.64 per set.
To view a photo gallery from pool play, click here.
Anderson and Kazan will play the defending champion, Trentino Diatec Trento of Italy, at 5 a.m. PT on Thursday (Oct. 18) in the semifinals. PGE Skra Belchatow of Poland will face Brazil's Sada Cruzeiro in the other semifinal. Matches are being shown live at laola1.tv.
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Copra Elior Piacenza are now 2-0 in the Italian Serie A league after defeating Altotevere San Giustino on Oct. 14, 25-22, 25-18, 23-25, 25-17. Holt started all four sets and scored nine points on six attacks, two blocks and one ace.
U.S. outside hitter Futi Tavana (Saipipi, Samoa) is also on the roster for Piacenza, but did not play.
U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina defeated Marmi Lanza Verona, 25-21, 22-25, 28-26, 24-26, 15-11 on Oct. 14. Troy played as a substitute and scored one point with an ace.
U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Castellana Grotti fell to Cucine Lube Banca Marche Macerata, 25-23, 25-20, 25-22 on Oct. 14. Menzel started all three sets and scored eight points on eight attacks. He was also credited with 17 receptions, 47 percent positive.
In Italy's Serie B league, U.S. outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) and Sieco Service Ortona defeated Sieco Service Ortona, 28-26, 25-21, 23-25, 25-19 on Oct. 14.
Muagututia started all four sets and scored 17 points on 17 attacks. He was also credited with 26 receptions, which were 62 percent positive.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and his Argentina league team Personal Bolivar won the Masters Cup on Oct. 13.
Suxho scored eight points as Bolivar defeated San Juan UPCN, 25-22, 33-35, 24-26, 25-21, 15-13 in the final.
To view a photo gallery, click here.
Play in the French league began Oct. 13 and U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and his team Tours, the defending league champions, opened with a 25-21, 25-18, 19-25, 25-12 victory over Chaumont.
Smith started all four sets and scored five points on three kills and two blocks.
U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) led Cannes to a 25-14, 26-24, 24-26, 20-25, 15-8 victory over Beauvais Oise on Oct. 13.
Tarr finished with a team-leading 19 points on 17 kills and two blocks. He was also credited with 23 receptions, 43 percent positive.
U.S. middle blocker Matt Rawson (Los Angeles) also plays for Cannes and substituted in the fourth set and started the fifth, scoring four points on one attack, two blocks and one ace.
U.S. opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.)led Montpellier in its 25-22, 25-21, 16-25, 25-18 loss to Narbonne on Oct. 13.
Clark led all scorers with 17 points on 15 attacks, one block and one ace.
In France's B league, AS Orange Nassau, including U.S. libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitters Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) won its opening match over Cambrai Volley Elan du Cambresis, 25-23, 25-19, 29-27 on Oct. 14.
Vance, who is the team captain, started all three sets and scored eight points on eight attacks. Scott started all three sets and added four points on four kills. Scott was also credited with 25 receptions, 84 percent positive. Watten was credited with 19 receptions, 100 percent positive.
The Turkish league began play on Oct. 13 as U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) made his debut with Halkbank.
Priddy played as a substitute and did not score as Halkbank fell to Maliye Milli Piyango, 27-25, 13-25, 33-31, 25-27, 15-13.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led İstanbul BBSK to a 25-22, 25-22, 25-22 victory over Ziraat Bankasi on Oct. 14. Billings finished with 21 points on 15 kills, four blocks and two aces.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) is back with Arkas Spor this season. On Oct. 14, the team beat Gumushane Torul Genclik, 25-20, 25-14, 29-27. Hansen played as a substitute but did not score.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Jastrzębski Węgiel fell to AZS Politechnika Warszawska on Oct. 14, 25-18, 25-18, 21-25, 25-23.
Holmes started all four sets and scored nine points on eight attacks and one ace.
The Finnish team Raision Loimu, which includes three U.S. players, fell to Vammalan Lentopallo on Oct. 10, 27-25, 21-25, 22-25, 25-17, 15-9.
U.S. opposite Dean Bittner (Lakewood, Calif.) started all five sets and led all players with 24 points on 21 attacks, two blocks and one ace. U.S. outside hitter Jordan Dufault (Lakewood, Calif.) started all five sets and scored 10 points on seven kills and three blocks. U.S. middle blocker Dan McDonnell (Glendale, Ariz.) started all five sets and scored 10 points on six attacks, two blocks and two aces.

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Remembrance Sunday in Britain is rightfully a day for sombre reflection. It is also, lest we forget, a day when national and military flags are paraded and saluted in churches - sometimes even being placed on altars. Along with red poppies there are regimental colours and monuments to the armed forces. Frequently presiding at cenotaphs are chaplains and other clergy. And prayers are said for currently serving soldiers in controversial conflicts - again, sometimes with great pastoral sensitivity, sometimes in a more directly sanctioning spirit.
It is worth noting all this, because the received 'common sense' in response to Ekklesia's suggestion that churches could make white poppies available too, to symbolise peace and the non-violent sacrifice of Jesus upon which they are founded, has been to deny (often angrily) that the existing symbolism embodies military codes of thinking and has 'anything to do with religion at all'.
The assumptions of this culture are so ingrained, it seems, that we simply do not notice its character. And if anyone raises questions and suggests alternative perspectives, they are immediately jumped upon as being 'militant' and guilty of 'febrile egoism' (to use the words of Tristam Hunt in The Observer, 12 November 2006).
There are many other difficult aspects of our present pattern of war remembering that get overlooked, too.
In most instances, the main conflicts recalled are the two world wars of the twentieth century, along with the latest headline one, Iraq. Those remembered are largely soldiers of our nation and its allies, not others, not 'the enemy', not the civilans of Dresden, not victims of shameful ventures like Suez, and not those killed at the hands of British colonial overlords.
Indeed, the people of all nations who have died across the globe in some 400 conflicts since these 'wars to end all wars' are mostly ignored, as are many civilians and those who lost their lives as objectors or in alternative service. When we really examine it, our 'remembrance' looks painfully selective and somewhat self-serving. There are shining counter-examples, like Coventry Cathedral and its Community of the Cross of Nails. But they are exceptions.
We recall the military downfall of Hitler, for example, but not the aftermath of the extravagantly wasteful war that helped bring him to power. According to John Gaunt of TalkSport Radio, I am 'despicable' for even mentioning this complexity - just as President Bush has recently called those who question the impact of American military adventurism 'enemy comforters'. These are political attempts to repress different memories. The awkward truth is that it is always might, and not always right (when those two things can be clearly distinguished), that wins wars.
Presiding clergy and other secular officiants often wrestle hard with these matters around Armistice Day. But they know that sensitivities around the defence of an ingrained 'natural' patriotic and military outlook are so high that there will be hell to pay for even the least sign of dissent.
Mention the fact that Britain has armed all its own most recent enemies (notably Argentina before the Falklands and Iraq under Saddam) and there will be discomfort if not outrage. Suggest that an altar is not the place for national flags and military symbols, because it is a symbol of reconciliation for all, and you will be accused of being 'a troublesome vicar' (as a friend of mine was no so long ago).
Another friend who is a German minister in Britain was even required to bless military colours, though in her own country (given the terrible experience of 'church and nation' being identified so disastrously under Nazism) this is little short of blasphemy - as it is in the Anabaptist congregations who are heirs to decades of persecution by the Constantinian church and its state allies.
Recently I was in Flanders, as part of a deeply moving tour of the battlefields and war graves. There is no room for triumph there. And I have distant relatives who died in the senseless slaughter. There are no red poppies on German graves either, just as this 'international symbol' is little-known in large parts of the Americas, in the majority-Muslim world and in many other places, even in our own land.
These, too, are issues we are barely allowed to raise without being shouted down in an over-confrontational media culture. Which is why the question of 'political correctness' is not an illegitimate one to consider, as Michael Portillo has noted in a column (Sunday Times, 12/11/06) even though he disagrees with Ekklesia.
However, time and again last week, on interviews and phone-ins, I was told that such basic issues to do with the content and shape of remembrance 'obviously' had 'nothing to do with individuals wearing a red poppy', as if we all walk around in bubbles isolated from social and political mores. Another way of putting it would be to say that it is very much a case of the fish not noticing the water it swims in, let alone its colour.
Interestingly, one group to support Ekklesia's stance in favour of choice about how we remember has been the Green Party in Northern Ireland, whose co-leader Dr John Barry said that 'those who do wear a white poppy are simply using a different symbol to remember and that it is equally as valid and needs to be respected.' Given their context, they know more than a little about sectarian bile and armed religiosity.
Yet it is the character of our 'natural' predispositions about the efficacy of war as an instrument of policy which are thrown into awkward relief when the option of the white poppy is raised. It is, incontrovertibly, a sign of peacemaking without arms - though it can be worn by people of both 'just war' and pacifist convictions, and often has been over the years, albeit as a distinctly minority tradition. Around 50,000 get sold in Britain and Ireland compared to millions of red ones.
I frequently point out that I wear both the blood red poppy, to remember all who have died, and the white one to commit to seeking alternatives to military conflict. Yet even this causes offence. It is as if peace-building outside the framework provided by military endeavour can have no place in Remembrance ñ for those who then go on to claim, somewhat contradictorily, that the dominant symbol is 'neutral'.
Likewise, it is seen as 'political' to talk about non-violent conflict resolution in Iraq, but it is not political to 'salute the courage of our boys' in a war which is widely regarded as illegal under international law, and which, while it has thankfully displaced a tyrant, has produced endless bloodshed and suffering in its wake.
The point here is most definitely not one of lack of respect. I have great respect for the courage and commitment of the military (including members of my own family) - I just wish, along with Ron Sider in the famous speech which helped give birth to Christian Peacemaker Teams, that we could ask another question. 'What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to non-violent peacemaking that armies devote to war?'
This was a key implication of Jonathan Bartley's article in the Church Times - directed to a Christian audience - which was the source of the recent fuss, along with newsreader Jon Snow's refusal of what he called 'poppy fascism'. To its great credit the British Legion backed free choice, though many of its supporters were angry about the questioning of their symbolism.
Jonathan Bartley has pointed out that a 'No More War' inscription was refused for the red poppy in 1926, which is partly how the white one came to emerge in 1933. And as I have illustrated, the context in which it has been employed is far from undecided on the issue of war, but accepts it as both necessary and heroic.
By contrast, the cross of Christ - a symbol which stands at the heart of Christian faith - embodies a message of deliverance not through might, but through a love which is prepared to endure even death rather than go on perpetuating cycles of blame, scapegoating and murder.
This, we suggested (to Christians) is why we might consider alternative ways of remembering. That was not an attempt to 'Christianize' these ceremonies (though that has happened pretty comprehensively under Christendom), as some suggested, but to look at the issue of the specific responsibility of the communities who claim to follow Jesus.
Again, this is incredibly difficult for many to hear, for two reasons. First, the interests of church and nation state have been elided in the constitutional and symbolic fabric of England, where much of this argument has taken place. This means that some people object to the church they do not belong to having any different stance on questions like war and peace, and it also means that many Christians assume that the view they take of these matters should follow the same logic as everybody else because we are there to 'serve the community'.
That means, second, that the theological questions involved in all of this get submerged completely. These are not about arcane 'religious' matters, they are fundamental questions of allegiance - who and in what do we place our trust? Who and what will deliver us from hatred and death?
The Gospel's answer is that the power of love, which resides in a God whose favour-free love cannot be manipulated, is alone capable of overcoming the tragic consequences of our love of power. To be baptised into Christ is to enter into his death-by-execution recognising that God alone gives life. It is also to join a community whose witness to the possibilities of justice and peace is not circumscribed by national, tribal, racial, gender or any other interests (if it understands itself rightly).
My conversion to non-violence as a core identity-marker of a follower of Jesus came when I realised three things. First, that the cross says that God absorbs violence, instead of inflicting it (in contradiction to a lot of the dangerously distorted preaching you hear these days). Second, that it makes no sense at all to belong to a community called the Body of Christ if I am prepared to kill its other members when ordered to do so by a nation or political cause. Third, living in such a community is ñ against all odds - about learning the difficult business (and it is difficult) of how not to wound or kill each other - or our neighbours. What more important lesson is there to learn?
All this goes a lot deeper for me than a doctrinal argument over Jesus - who, though he warned of division, condemned religious hypocrisy and grabbed the tables of the temple money launderers, is presented by the Gospel writers as disarming Peter and encouraging people to love their enemies, do good to those that hate them, and to pray for those who disdain justice.
What has happened, it seems, is that the Christendom church has developed doctrines about this Jesus in abstraction from the actual pattern of his living and the testimony of his earliest companions. It has also 'spiritualised' and individualised the Gospel, in the sense of elevating it above the actual corporate circumstances in which we live - so that the very idea that its Word might take flesh in us becomes incomprehensible.
If we are to remember well (that is to bodily rejoin, to re-member, what has been torn apart) the Christian community needs much more of a sense of its own difficult calling. It also needs much less of an instinct to conform to what is expected of it, much less of a desire to seek power for itself, and much less of a willingness to go around blessing bullets and bombs as a means of deliverance.
In doing this, old solidarities will break (and the habit of putting flags on altars will certainly need to go), but surprising new alliances can emerge with those of other faith and none. As Ekklesia has also been trying to say this week, there is a massive debate to be had about the cultural ubiquity of 'the myth of redemptive violence' in this and every culture.
The archetype of the mighty military avenger (Rambo, Bush, Bin Laden) who saves the good and punishes the bad is deeply rooted in religious mythology ñ but also in the assumptions of secular politics and world views. We need to work together within-and-across boundaries of ideology and belief to confront this deep rooted problem, which faces us every day on TV, in the cinema and on our games machines. The issue is not one of censorship, but of deep self-knowing.
All this is, of course, like loving your neighbour, easy to talk about but bloody hard to do. Which is why the last word should be about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He has long been one of my exemplars, both in his life and his thought. A deeply prayerful Lutheran, he was prepared to push difficult theological agendas to the furthest boundaries, spurred on (but never controlled) by the commanding heights of modern European Enlightenment culture.
In imbibing the Gospels - especially the Sermon on the Mount - Bonhoeffer became a pacifist both by instinct and by intellectual enrolment, in a context where such attitudes were despised. He wanted to meet Gandhi, but never did. Yet impelled by the need to resist Hitler, he became involved in the church struggle, in criticising mistreatment of the Jews, in counter-espionage, in attempts to get the British to take German resistance seriously (they didn't) and finally in an anti-Fuhrer plot which involved a failed assassination attempt.
Bonhoeffer mostly resisted nonviolently. This is possible. He was never closely involved in the regicide aspect of the conspiracy, but he well knew what he was caught up in. Yet he did not try to justify it theologically, let alone to turn it into a policy - as the writer A. N. Wilson tried to suggest in having a go at Ekklesia in the Evening Standard (and presuming that we knew nothing of the man).
Instead he 'threw himself on the mercy of God', recognising that the issue was not personal purity but the need to take responsibility, even if we get it wrong. Yet others decided to fight. And some decided to refuse to fight. The issue is not to assign moral worth or blame, but to ask how and on what basis - and with what degree of moral maturity - we look at what is at stake in remembering war today. And in doing something about it.
My choice is to seek to encourage churches to put all their efforts not into defending themselves or seeking to conquer society, but into practical peacemaking in a world of violent despair. And I will keep as my companion the failed pacifist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who yet remained faithful to Jesus the crucified lover right through to his strangely dignified (yet plainly sordid) death in Flossenburg concentration camp on 9 April 1945.
'Give peace a chance', John Lennon said. We could at least start by asking why it is so difficult to do so with any real resolve in a season of Remembrance.
(c) Simon Barrow is co-director of Ekklesia.


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New Community Nano-Brewery for Cumberland
'Tis the season to open a new craft brewery in British Columbia, apparently. While I was in the Comox Valley for the holidays, I learned that Cumberland Brewing Company was officially opening their doors. According to The Vancouver Sun, 21 breweries are in the planning stage across the province, 13 of which are to be in Metro Vancouver. Canada's third largest city has proven friendly to nano-breweries where patrons can walk in the door and get a pint or growler fill of a unique tasty local beer. Will the Comox Valley prove as friendly? I hope so.
The Cumberland Brewing Company (CBC) was started by Darren Adam and Caroline Tymchuck, whom I contacted via the brewery's Facebook page to see if they were interested in talking to a blogger about their business. Darren and Caroline told me to come down to their Dunsmuir Avenue location the next day, their fourth day of operations, for a quick chat. Despite it being a holiday, there was a line out the door and it was tough to get a seat in the tasting lounge. When Darren could spare a minute, he was happy to answer a few questions. Read the rest of this entry »


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Sausage and Potato Pie
When I was first married a few years back, I could barely make scrambled eggs with a recipe! This is the first recipe I've ever created. Its success encouraged my interest in cooking.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1 pound bulk pork sausage
- 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion, divided
- 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup water
- 4 bacon strips
- 1 cup shredded raw potato
- 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
- 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Combine sausage, 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, 1/4 cup onion, bread crumbs and water. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. pie pan, forming a rim along edge of pan. Bake at 375° for 20 minutes or until juices run clear; drain. Meanwhile, in a skillet, cook bacon until crisp; remove to paper towels to drain. Reserve 1 tablespoon of drippings. Add potato; cook over medium-high heat for 10 minutes or until browned, stirring occasionally. Add green pepper and the remaining onion. Reduce heat to medium; cook for 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. In bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper; stir in cheddar cheese. Add to skillet; reduce heat and cook for 2-3 minutes or until eggs are slightly moist. Spoon into sausage shell. Sprinkle with remaining mozzarella; crumble bacon over top. Return to the oven for 5 minutes or until cheese melts.


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This young man is Chris Jeon. He is a 21-year-old UCLA math major and he recently decided to take a vacation to the Libyan revolution. He brought a throwback Jerry West jersey with him.
Gawker posted this story earlier today, but we absolutely have to revisit it to address the hoopster situation, and to further publicly shame Chris Jeon. He went, he told The National, because he "thought it would be cool to join the rebels," and because this particular revolution is the only "real" one in the world. Ah, realness. It is about time that the Millennials of this nation address the "realness" of political revolutions:
"How do you fire this thing?" he asked on Wednesday as a bearded rebel handed him an AK-47. Locating the trigger of the assault rifle and switching off the safety, Mr Jeon fired it in the air in two short bursts.
"I want to fight in Sirte!" he proclaimed, using hand gestures and pointing west towards Sirte. Whether the rebels understood him was far from clear. "It's hard to communicate. I don't really speak any Arabic," he said.
And he did it all in a $100 throwback jersey. Hoopsters worldwide, hear this: the bar has been set, and your John Stockton kiddie jerseys at Lollapalooza just will not do anymore. Get real, and get yourself a ticket to the Libyan revolution.
Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold [The National]
Clueless UCLA Math Major Joins Libyan Rebels [Gawker]
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It's always interesting to spend time poking through the application bundle for newly released Mac OS X software. Inside the bundle are all sorts of files and resources that can sometimes give you insight as to what is going on with development. Today, Ars had a chance to dive into Safari 4 and explore some features that were hidden away from surface inspection.
To look inside any Macintosh application bundle, select it in the Applications folder, right click and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up. A new Finder browser window will open, revealing the bundle contents. Choose View > as Columns (Command-3) for the easiest browsing experience.
Inside the bundle are three intriguing items, all new to Safari 4: a code signature folder, a Safari webpage preview fetcher, and a WebApplicationCore bundle. Of these items, the signature folder and the bundle are not remarkable in any real way other than showing the growth of the Safari application.
According to Apple's Safari features page, Safari 4 offers support for many next-generation Internet standards including offline databases for standalone Web applications. The new WebApplicationCore bundle appears to provide the core support for these Web applications. Strings in the bundle suggest little more functionality than loading the application, running it, linking to other Web apps, and quitting.
The _CodeSignature folder is one of the first any of us at Ars has noticed for an application shipped directly from Apple. Application signing has been around a long time and is used widely by third-party developers. We've seen Apple sign frameworks before. We've seen Apple sign executables before. But this is the first time we've seen Apple signing general application material. This kind of signing assures the integrity of the application bundle, including images, property lists, and so forth. (Test for yourself. Issue
ls /Applications/*/Contents/_CodeSignature or
locate _CodeSignature from the CLI.)
What came as a small surprise to us was the third and last item: the Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher. It's a standalone utility that is called from Safari whenever users enter the Top Pages browser. We were able to track the calls to this utility by running dtrace. Sure enough, the preview fetcher was tied to Top Pages and was called as often as not when the Top Pages browser was activated.
A little investigation showed us that the utility updates a preview cache located in /var/folders. The exact location will likely vary. Issue
cd /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.safari from the command line to locate the Safari cache folder, which will own a Webpage Previews subfolder. The actual call to the fetcher looks something like this:
3011 ?? 0:00.02 /Applications/Safari 3.app/Contents/Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher /var/folders/Xo/XoLxWUlSFtSplCoUpBV7DE+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews/Incoming
When run, the utility grabs high (PNG) and low (JPG) previews of the webpage and adds them to the cache folder.
So why does Safari do this? Why call an embedded utility? This question led to a lively behind-the-scenes discussion at the Orbiting HQ. In this, as in many things, John Siracusa provided the greatest insight. Perhaps, he suggested, this is a vote of no confidence in Mac OS X's concurrency frameworks, particularly when used in conjunction with a big library like WebKit. Some developers complain about NSOperationQueue and threading in general, as Apple's concurrency libraries are not really where they should be just yet. (Rogue Amoeba, greatly disappointed with Apple's class, offers an open-source replacement for NSOperationQueue.) Alternatively, he offered that maybe this part of Safari just had to be done in a hurry and will be integrated into the main application some time in the future.
Nothing we found today really shook our world or indicated an unexpected new direction for Apple. At the same time, it's always intriguing to see what is new, what has changed, and where each application release takes us. If you find anything new in Safari that we've missed, please share with us in the comments.


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For years we have struggled with creating a site that helps people all over the world engage with Gangplank. Having multiple locations, each with a different set of initiatives, numerous events, and so many things happening in the Gangplank movement can be intimidating.
Instead of waiting to be perfect, we are going to Be Dangerous. This month you will see some major changes to our site. We will be launching a new, extremely simple, theme. We can figure out what is and is not working, and quickly iterate to improve the site for everyone.
Visit our github project to get involved and make the Gangplank experience better for everyone. Any and all skillsets are welcome.


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Villar pulled after baserunning mistake
HOUSTON -- Astros manager Bo Porter pulled starting shortstop Jonathan Villar in the third inning of Tuesday's 9-6 loss in 12 innings to the Twins for what the skipper described as an ill-advised baserunning gaffe with his team trailing, 4-1.
Villar led off the third with a single to left field, but he was thrown out trying to stretch the hit to a double. Marwin Gonzalez played the rest of the game at shortstop while Villar, the team's 10th-ranked prospect, watched the final nine innings from the bench.
"I learned this a long time ago from Sandy Alomar," Porter said. "He told me the scoreboard is the most important object on the baseball field. I explained this to Jonathan after the game."
What did Porter tell Villar exactly: "'I would never want to take your aggression away from you. It's part of what makes you a special player. But at the same time you have to be aware of the situation that's going on and what's the score.' We have a starting pitcher out there who has basically labored for three innings, we're down, 4-1, and get the leadoff man on and that's not a time to take that kind of a chance."
Earlier this season, Porter benched outfielder J.D. Martinez for swinging at a pitch in a situation in which the hitters had been instructed not to swing. Porter said Tuesday pulling Villar was a "no-brainer."
"As the umpire was calling him out at second base, I was telling Gonzo to get ready to go to shortstop," Porter said. "I believe that Jonathan will receive the message properly, because him and I talked about it. I think it will help him moving forward. He's young, he's aggressive and I told him, 'Your aggression is what allows you to be an impact player. But at the same time, that scoreboard is the most important object on this field and you have to understand there are times when the scoreboard will dictate to you exactly how aggressive you should be.'"


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President Barack Obama empaneled a new task force led by Vice President Joe Biden to develop comprehensive proposals to address gun violence no later than next month.
In the wake of last week's shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the president announced a new initiative that would include members of his cabinet and outside organizations to generate proposals to rein in gun violence. He said that any effort should include new restrictions on guns, but also improved access to mental health services and better management of violence in popular culture.
Obama vowed that the new task force would not be just another Washington commission, shorthand for the groups sometimes tasked with studying an issue or event but which often delay or dilute solutions long past the time when the original impetus for such a panel has passed.
President Obama announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will be developing proposals to curb gun violence, some of which may include banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity gun clips or magazines. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Obama said he had asked Biden "to lead an effort that includes members of my cabinet and outside organizations to come up with a set of concrete proposals, no later than January," which the president would then push "without delay."
"This is not some Washington commission. This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read, and then pushed aside," the president said. "This is a team that has a very specific task: to pull together real reforms, right now."
Obama expressed support -- restating the position of his press secretary, Jay Carney -- for certain gun measures, including the assault weapons ban, limits on ammunition and closing a loophole allowing gun buyers to elude background checks at gun shows. But he stressed that those were only components of a broader effort to address violence.
The president suggested that stakeholders in those deliberations could possibly include the National Rifle Association -- the gun rights group that had gone silent in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but will hold a press conference on Friday. The president argued that mothers and fathers who compose the NRA's membership had also been impacted by the Newtown shooting.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden arrive at an announcement on gun reform in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House December 19, 2012 in Washington, DC.
"Their task is going to be to sift through every good idea that's out there, and even take a look at some bad ideas before disposing of them," Obama said of the task force's efforts.
Already, Democrats on Capitol Hill have started to initiate some gun control efforts in the aftermath of Newtown. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Wednesday for Republicans to bring up a vote on high-capacity ammunition magazines by this weekend. And West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D, introduced legislation to study the impact of violent video games on children.
Additionally, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has said she'll bring up a bill to reinstate the lapsed ban on assault weapons of the first day of the next Congress.
Few Republicans have stepped forward to embrace any of these gun measures, though, and have focused instead on the need for improved mental health services, or school safety.
Obama said his task force's proposals would make up part of his State of the Union address, and he expressed hope that the searing images from last week's shooting in Connecticut would last in the public conscious and help advance his eventual proposals.
"I would hope that our memories aren't so short that what we saw in Newtown isn't lingering with us -- that we don't remain passionate about it, only a month later," he said.


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Littleton man charged with neglecting horses
LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) � A New Hampshire man taking care of some horses has been charged with five counts of animal cruelty.
David Yeargle of Littleton was arrested Friday on a warrant. Police said the 40-year-old Yeargle negligently and without lawful authority deprived five horses of necessary care while they were in his possession.
The Caledonian-Record reports (http://bit.ly/VtJKaT) he was released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to be in court on Jan. 8.
His arrest comes two weeks after animal rescue volunteers confiscated 18 of 23 full-size and miniature horses on the property. Yeargle was told to sign over the horses to a rescue farm or face charges.
Authorities and rescue volunteers said they found the animals lacking food and access to fresh water and standing in mud and manure.
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WHOOOYAWW!!!!! My preorder for the new Occasions Mini arrived!!! I am so excited to play with all my new goodies. You are going to LOVE the new Designer Paper. The one on the left called has Dazzling Diamonds Glitter built right into the paper!!! My FAV!!! And look at the paper pack on the right…48 pages of double sided paper. There is another paper pack in the SALE-A-BRATION flyer that you can earn for FREE!!!!! This is such an exciting time. Can you see the new stamp sets sitting there? They are the clear mounted stamps that many of you have been wishing Stampin' Up! would start to sell. I mounted the new stamps and they are a BREEZE! You are going to love them, and the simple storage is the size of a DVD box. Perfect!!! Two new embosslits and one of our sleek new styled punches – you are going to LOVE all these new goodies!
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Purchased due to car being a "Turbo" & the WET filters have be known to build up on the turbo spindles. Overall a good alternative to wet filter system. Considering upgrading to the cool air intake when this filter has some milage on it. Would buy again if there was discount or coupon offer.


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Paul's Magnum Opus
Take some time today to read through the book of Romans and get a grasp of the book's overall flow and argument. Ask the Lord to help you see the truth of the gospel and how it applies to you ...Read More
Elisha Takes Up His Teacher's Mantle
The gift of prophecy has ceased, so Jesus calls none of us to be prophets in the classical sense. However, we are called to bear witness to Him where we are and insofar as we are able. This is the ...Read More
Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
Ultimately, God only demands one thing—our full commitment to Him. We were made for our Creator, and He will not share us with another. He will not have us as His if we try to divide our ultimate allegiance between ...Read More
The Prototypical Prophet
We do not believe that the office of prophet continues today. God established the prophets as the foundation of the church, and a foundation is laid only once. However, God's people are called to build on that foundation alone (Eph. ...Read More
The Prophetic Hope Fulfilled
John the Baptist was the last prophet of the old covenant even though his story is told in what we commonly call the New Testament. Jesus tells us that John was the greatest prophet of the old covenant, but greater ...Read More
Zerubbabel, the Lord's Signet Ring
God's promise to exalt Zerubbabel, that is, one of Zerubbabel's sons, is fulfilled in Christ Jesus, who is David's descendant through Zerubbabel (Matt. 1:1–17; Luke 3:23–38). Christ has been exalted to the right hand of God the Father Almighty, fulfilling ...Read More
In the Den of Lions
John Calvin comments on today's passage that true piety is both internal and external. It is "not only the duty of offering to God the sacrifice of prayer in our hearts, but that our open profession is also required, and ...Read More
The Handwriting on the Wall
In today's passage, we saw the great and mighty dependent on the very people they conquered for insight into the Lord's ways. God so often uses the meek, the powerless, and even the subjugated to show those who think they ...Read More
God Humbles Nebuchadnezzar
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Chocolate Peppermint Poke Cake – AMAZING!!!! Only 6 ingredients – chocolate cake mix, hot fudge sauce, condensed milk, cool whip and peppermint crunch chips. Great for a crowd. Tastes like Christmas! Everyone always asks for the recipe!
This was inspired by my love of the Peppermint Chocolate Chip milkshake at Chick-fil-a. I wait all year to get my hands on one of those milkshakes. They are my absolute favorite!
This is made with the same method as my Butterfinger cake. Bake the cake, poke holes in it, pour a peppermint chocolate mixture all over it, and top it with Andes candy cane crunch and cool whip. OMG! DELICIOUS! This is Christmas in a pan! As with the Butterfinger cake, this cake gets better with time. It is great right out of the pan, but I would suggest making it at least a day in advance of eating. I must confess that we couldn't wait a day to sample this. It was just too dang tempting!
Chocolate Peppermint Poke Cake
1 box devils food cake, plus ingredients to make cake
1 (11.75-oz) jar Smucker's hot fudge sauce
1 (14-oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 tsp peppermint extract or a few drops of peppermint oil
1 (8-oz) container Cool Whip
- 1 (10-oz) bag Andes peppermint crunch baking chips
Bake cake in a 9×13-inch pan according to direction on the package.
While cake is baking, mix milk, hot fudge sauce and peppermint extract. When the cake is done and while it's still hot, poke holes in it with a fork or straw. Pour milk mixture over the cake. Allow cake to cool completely.
- Sprinkle half the peppermint crunch over cake. Spread Cool Whip over the top, then sprinkle the remaining peppermint crunch on top. Chill.


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Adobe is not planning to further enhance E-mail tracking of open/bounces (not deliverable) send by AEM SMTP service.
Recommendation is to leverage Adobe Campaign and the integration to AEM.
When you send a newsletter to many users, there are usually some invalid emails adresses in the list. Sending newsletters to those addresses bounce back. AEM is capable of managing those bounces and can stop sending newsletters to those adresses after the configured bounce counter is exceeded. By default, the bounce rate is set to 3 but is configurable.
To set AEM up to track bounced emails, you need to set up AEM to poll an existing mailbox where bounced emails are received (usually this is the "from" email address that you specify where you send the newsletter). AEM polls this inbox and imports all emails below the path specified in the polling configuration. A workflow is then triggered to search for the bounced email adresses within the users and updates the bounceCounter property value of the user accordingly. After the configured max bounces is exceeded, the user is removed from the newsletter list.
The feed importer lets you repeatedly import content from external sources into your repository. With this configuration of the feed importer, AEM checks the sender's mailbox for bounced emails.
To configure the feed importer for tracking bounced emails:
Add a new configuration by selecting the type and by adding information to the polling URL to configure the host and port. In addition, you need to add some mail and protocol-specific parameters to the URL query. Set the configuration to poll at least once a day.
All configurations need information about the following in the polling URL:
pop3.leave.on.server Defines whether to leave messages on server or not. Set to true to leave messages on server, false otherwise. Defaults to true. pop3s://pop.gmail.com:995/INBOX?username=user&password=secret Using pop3 over SSL to connect to GMail on port 995 with user/secret, leaving messages on server by default pop3s://pop.gmail.com:995/INBOX?username=user&password=secret&pop3.leave.on.server=false pop3s://pop.gmail.com:995/INBOX?username=user&password=secret&pop3.leave.on.server=false
See http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/javax/mail/Flags.Flag.html for the full list of flags.
imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/inbox?username=user&password=secret Using IMAP over SSL to connect to GMail on port 993 with user/secret. Getting new messages only by default. imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/inbox?username=user&password=secret&imap.flag.SEEN=true Using IMAP over SSL to connect to GMail 993 with user/secret, only getting already seen message. imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/inbox?username=user&password=secret&imap.flag.SEEN=true&imap.flag.SEEN=false Using IMAP over SSL to connect to GMail 993 with user/secret, getting already read OR new messages.
After configuring the feed importer, you need to configure the From address and the bounce counter.
To configure the newsletter service:
Bounce Counter Maximum (max.bounce.count) Defines the number of bounces until a user will be omitted when sending a newsletter. Setting this value to 0 disables the bounce check completely. Activity No Cache (sent.activity.nocache) Defines the cache setting to use for the newsletter sent activity
Once saved, the newsletter MCM service does the following:
- Writes an activity to the users hidden stream upon successful sending of a newsletter.
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Happy holidays! We're celebrating the season with a giveaway: 10 patterns of your choice! You can mix and match from any of our current Butterick, McCall's, Kwik Sew and Vogue® Patterns. Just enter below. A random winner will be selected during the week of January 2, 2017 and will be announced on this post. Good luck!
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If only we could take back what was said in haste. That must be what former Playboy Bunny Crystal Harris is wishing. Twelve months after the 26-year-old ditched her fiancé, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner 86 , the pair have confirmed that their engagement is back on. Crystal is wondering why the media isn't taking the happy news too seriously.
The lack of media excitement may have something to do with their previously "amicable breakup" before their big wedding last year. Engaged in December 2010 after two years together, Hef and Harris were ready to tie the knot at the Playboy Mansion in June 2011. Five days before the wedding, the relationship deteriorated into an unseemly spat.
When the breakup went public (via Twitter, of course), Harris hit the airwaves and didn't hold back. She gave her reasons on nationally syndicated radio shows: Sex with Hefner apparently lasted "like, two seconds." In case that wasn't clear enough, she added, "Then I was just over it…I just like, walked away. I'm not turned on by Hef–sorry."
The PR Verdict : "D" for Crystal and her desire for the media to take her engagement seriously. Next time, let your fiancé's publicist do the talking.
PR Takeaway: Whatever is true at the moment may not be true later on–or, if it is, maybe it's better left unsaid. Avoid being held hostage to fortune. Claiming Hefner was a dud in bed while Tweeting that the separation was amicable was always going to strain credulity. The archive is stronger than the Tweet. Next time, pretend the split is amicable, and let the PR team do its job. And there probably will be a next time, because as we know, Hef and Harris have a funny way of changing their minds.
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We like us some Bradley Cooper, and "The Crow" remake seems to be in good hands, but Bradley Cooper as "The Crow"?
Cooper is Relativity Media's first choice to take the lead role in "The Crow," reported Variety. This would continue the relationship between star and studio that began with "Limitless," which opened in March and has made $64 thus far.
The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that "28 Weeks Later" helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo had been hired to direct "The Crow" remake. Cooper recently met with Fresnadillo to discuss the project, and the director apparently liked Cooper's thoughts on the lead character.
We were underwhelmed by "Limitless," but impressed by the range and versatility that Cooper displayed in the film, as he transitioned seamlessly from dirtbag to Wall St hotshot to pol over the course of the film. But this seems like a bad fit—maybe it's the bad juju that hangs over the film as a result of star Brandon Lee's tragic death during filming, maybe it's the idea of cooper in the make-up… who knows, just seems like a bad idea.
But, hey, if we knew anything about the magic of Hollywood, we wouldn't be sitting here in our mother's basement.
Cooper's next film "The Hangover Part II," opens May 26.
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We like us some Bradley Cooper, and "The Crow" remake seems to be in good hands, but Bradley Cooper as "The Crow"?


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As the almost 13-year-occupation of Afghanistan by foreign troops draws to an end, a new report by Médecins Sans Frontières highlights jarring shortcomings in the public health system they'll be leaving behind. These pictures, by documentary photographers Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov, both of whom have spent years covering the war's toll on the innocent, are paired with the aid group's findings.
The report released Tuesday concludes that access to basic or emergency medical care remains hard to reach—or beyond grasp—for many Afghans despite years of Western involvement and billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance. Aid workers interviewed hundreds of hospital patients over the course of six months in Helmand, Kabul, Khost and Kunduz provinces. The results of their survey strike a blow to "prevailing narratives of progress," says MSF, as battles with the Taliban rage and international aid dries up.
Some clinics lack qualified staff, specific medicines and even electricity, MSF was told. One-fifth of patients interviewed said a family member or close friend had died in the past year due to a lack of access to proper care. Among the main barriers for reaching treatment were high costs and lack of money, long distances and the armed conflict. "The fighting doesn't stop when there are injured people, so we can't get them to a doctor. So we wait, and then they die, and the fighting continues," said one man, a 25-year-old principal in the northern Baghlan Province. "Even if you are able to move with your wounded, you still have to get through roadblocks, checkpoints, questioning and harassment before you can reach the hospital." Forty percent of interviewees who reached the hospitals said they encountered those hardships, among others.
MSF does note that the number of health facilities has risen "considerably" over the past decade and that national statistics claim more than 57 percent of people now live within an hour's walk of a public health facility—up from nine percent in 2001—but that's just about all the good news that there is. With this report and accompanying photographs, the organization calls on international donors, other aid groups and the Afghan government to begin filling in the gaps and meeting the needs of a population wracked by decades of war before the situation gets any worse. —Andrew Katz


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On a golden springtime, underneath the ground,
A tiny seedling lay asleep until the sun shone down.
Awake, awake, O little seed!
Push upward to the light!
The day is bright. With all your might,
push upward to the light!
On a golden springtime, Jesus Christ awoke
And left the tomb where he had lain; the bands of death he broke.
Awake, awake, O sleeping world!
Look upward to the light,
For now all men may live again.
Look upward to the light!
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On a golden springtime, in a forest glade,
The Father and the Son appeared as Joseph knelt and prayed.
Awake, awake, O nations all!
Receive the gospel light!
The gospel true is here for you.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges released a new report last week. Clinical Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Medicine Workplace presents findings from a survey of 6,000 clinical faculty at 23 medical schools. Boston University was not part of the sample.
The headline result is that two-thirds of faculty are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs. The fine print is that satisfaction varies greatly by specialty. The happiest folks in the hospital are the dermatologists, and the least happy are the anesthesiologist. Significantly, faculty in general internal medicine are much more likely to be satisfied with work than faculty in medicine subspecialties.
While the survey cannot reveal the reasons behind these differences, it can point to a strong correlation between job satisfaction and retention. This gives us motivation to conduct further research on what makes a clinical faculty member feel supported. The findings will help reduce turnover at academic medical centers.
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This proposal for the Guangzhou Daily Group Culture Center, designed by IAPA Design Consultants, one of the best Australian practitioners in architectural design, is the recent winner of the excellence award in the International Architecture Design Competition.
The proposed center would include offices, commercial space, exhibition and culture spaces, and a hotel—a complex that would be both the vessel for culture and an element of the culture itself.
Its mille-feuille design was inspired by newspapers, or newspaper culture, and is representative of the information age.
The surrounding garden, too, is split between multiple levels, an effect that is meant to blur the boundaries between architecture and landscape.
The design of the museum area is inspired by moveable type, one of the great inventions of ancient China. Not merely an aesthetic embellishment, it is meant to serve as a historical touch stone, displaying the connection between ancient moveable type artistry and contemporary newspaper culture.
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Photographed cavorting near Bow Falls or at poolside, Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe is perhaps the most famous guest to have bedded down at the Banff Springs Hotel.
In town for eight days in 1953 to shoot the film River of No Return with Robert Mitchum, Monroe met locals at the pool and in the hotel while recuperating from an injured ankle.
The doomed starlet joins a long list of celebrities, royalty and dignitaries who have graced the elegant halls of the Banff Springs.
"Prime ministers, presidents, Winston Churchill. We'd be here all afternoon going over the movie stars," said Dave Moberg, manager of guest relations, who's worked at the hotel for 51 years.
His favourite celebrity experience was meeting Lee Marvin, who stayed three months while filming 1981's Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Angie Dickinson.
"Now I'm showing my age," Moberg joked.
"It was a beautiful Indian Summer day; he arrived in a black limousine, Harris Tweed coat, silver hair. I welcomed him to the hotel and said, "Can I escort you to your suite?' He said, 'Hell no, Dave, take me to the bar.'"
Such stories abound from hotel staff about its famous guests, even those dating back decades.
William Cunningham, regional sales manager, related one famous tale from the 1930s.
Apparently the CPR, the owner of the Banff Springs, went to great lengths so jazz great Benny Goodman could visit. The musician wanted to come but only if he could fly his plane there. There was no airstrip, so the CPR arranged to have one cleared.
Henry Fonda, Mickey Rooney and Ginger Rogers also visited in those early years.
Later guests included King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Indira Gandhi and her entourage of hundreds, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, a young Russian secretary of agriculture on a tour of Canada in 1983.
The imposing Gorbachev, who went on to become first president of the Soviet Union, so rattled a young waitress that she spilled soup on him.
"Her hand was shaking so bad she spilled it as she went to set it down," said Deon Klatt, of guest services who heard the story directly from the banquet captain who was there in the Oak Room.
"It went silent in the room. Gorbachev beckoned (the banquet captain) with one finger. He went over and leaned down to Gorbachev. And in that deep voice, he said "I won't tell if you won't tell."
The past 10 to 20 years at Banff Springs have seen a trend toward Hollywood stars attending events such as the Waterkeeper Alliance Celebrity Invitational.
The A- and B-list stars at that have included Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, Fran Drescher, Farrah Fawcett, Glenn Close, Marcia Gay Harden, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Dan Aykroyd, Woody Harrelson, and Marjoe Gortner.
Sometimes the staff gets to go behind the scenes with their celebrity guests.
"I had to deliver dry cleaning — I had about 20 hangars for this one room — and as soon as I got off the elevator I could hear music pumping down the hall," said Klatt. "As I went down the hall it was getting louder and louder. I mean, it was really blasting."
It turned out the room with the music was where the laundry needed to go. After knocking repeatedly on the open door to no avail, Klatt went in.
"It's John Daly," said Klatt, still with a touch of wonder in his voice.
The hard-living PGA star was at Banff Springs for the 2006 Telus Skins Game and was kicking back in his room between rounds.
"He invited me in for a drink — Grey Goose and orange juice, well there wasn't much orange juice — so I stayed and had a drink with him and we shot the shit and I jammed with him."
Asked whether that's allowed while on duty, Klatt surmised, "When John Daly asks you to have a drink, you don't say no. It's guest relations after all."
Klatt has also tracked down American cigarettes for actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who was there with her husband Michael Douglas, and Robin Williams gave him an impromptu private standup show one day.
"I met Al Gore and there've been lots of NHL teams come through. We get a lot of famous people staying here. It's always interesting."


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Ultimate Ears Announces Free iPhone App
For more than a decade, Ultimate Ears custom monitors have changed the way music is performed for the biggest names in the industry.
So you can keep in tune with the music scene, Ultimate Ears has developed a free iPhoneApp. The Ultimate Ears App lets you measure sound pressure levels and decibels with an SPL Meter.
You can also watch artist interviews, see artist backstage photos and view videos of live performances from musicians that rock with Ultimate Ears' in-ear monitors. The Ultimate Ears app is available now as a free download.


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These days, there's no shortage of issues circulating around the military family water cooler. We hear words like "sequestration" and "fiscal cliff," and many of us are left with a nagging question: Should our spouses stay in the military or get out?
"First and foremost, my husband loves being a Marine," says Allie Lovette, a military spouse who has experienced this debate in her own household. But despite her husband's love for the military and the six years of active-duty service under his belt, he seriously contemplated getting out.
"He began to feel guilty about us moving around and him deploying and missing things," Lovette says. "Even though we don't have children yet, he was very concerned about missing big moments in their lives. This was the big nudge that made him pause and second guess his future career."
However, after looking into civilian employment opportunities, Lovette's husband realized how limited his job prospects were. "With all the jobs being cut everywhere, he was competing for entry-level positions with guys who not only had former military experience, but had Ph.D.s and 20 years already in the field!"
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Although troops may be wary of getting a post-military job, the unemployment rate for veterans is lower than the overall unemployment rate for all Americans.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, (Veteran unemployment data), the unemployment rate in November 2012 for all veterans was 6.6 percent -- well below the national average of 7.7 percent. Post-9/11 veterans have an unemployment rate of about 10 percent. This higher rate of unemployment may reflect the lack of transferable work experience among the youngest members of the post-9/11 vets.
"In the end, he decided to re-enlist," Lovette says. "My husband wants to be career military. Even though he has a few more years before his next re-enlistment, we are already nervous about it. With the military getting slimmer every day, we realize it may not be an option, but we keep working toward that goal regardless."
Lovette and her husband are among the many military couples weighing their options. Navy wife Laura Paxton and her husband discuss the possibility of leaving the military every few years. Her husband has served for 13 years, and their most recent debate stems from his desire to pursue another career path.
"This time, he talked about getting out to be able to concentrate on school, and then coming back in as a chaplain," Paxton explains. "He stays in to pay the bills. His heart is no longer in this job."
But, like Lovette, Paxton is also concerned about her husband's ability to find a job after the leaving the military.
"I am scared out of my mind every time because, even with two master's degree and a third one in the works, there is no guarantee of him finding work," Paxton says. "I like the security of knowing when his next paycheck will be and how much it is."
Army wife Sarah and her husband struggled with the decision of staying in or getting out for a year before ultimately choosing to stick with the military. Like most couples in this situation, Sarah and her husband listed the pros and cons of military life versus civilian life. "We looked at everything," Sarah says.
For them, it made more sense to stay in. The advantages of staying in the military, including the GI Bill, the steady paycheck, and the healthcare that helps cover her ongoing medical issues and fertility treatments, outweighed their strongest push to get out: deployments.
Sarah's husband has been deployed for two of his seven years of service in the Army. Staying in means sacrificing time spent at home with his family. "But for us, it would be a much greater sacrifice to get out than to do four more years. In three years, we will revisit it and see if it's still worth it."
Not all couples come out on the other side of this debate in favor of the military. Marine spouse Breanna Sykes and her husband recently decided it was best if he left the military.
Sykes' husband, who will complete four years of service in the Marine Corps by the time he gets out in March, was seeking stability in the form of a better work schedule and more time with his family. "He is ready to plant roots and be a civilian again," says Sykes.
Fortunately, her husband already has civilian employment lined up. It's Sykes herself who is having a harder time coping with their upcoming change in plans.
"Unfortunately, I am still working on finding my new career, which is why I am stressing out about this transition more than he is," she says. "It is a very difficult decision to face, but sometimes the easy choice isn't always the right one. Staying in and retiring as a Marine would definitely have been the easier choice, but both my husband and I have other aspirations that we cannot accomplish in the military."
Every couple is different. Every couple has to assess their own lives and how the military will fit into their future as a family. And not all couples will come to the same conclusion.
"For some people, the military is their whole life," Sykes says. "For our family, the military was just the beginning of ours."


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A hundred years after his death Dickens's reputation stands higher than ever before and he is generally recognized as the greatest creative force in English after Shakespeare. Would the pair be surprised to find themselves on this pinnacle? Tolstoy and Goethe knew what was in store for them, or what ought to be in store for them, as they knew everything else about their powerful personalities; but very likely Shakespeare and Dickens rarely reflected on their future status: they had neither the time nor the inclination, nor enough sense of their persons. In spite of the countless portraits and photographs it is not easy to see what Dickens looked like—the "countenance clear as steel" that Carlyle admired melts into unrecapturable shapes which suggest only the actor of a given moment, playing the part of author at his desk, public figure, or Christmas uncle. We can imagine Shakespeare acting on the stage as we can imagine Dickens acting off it, but Dickens as Dickens is no more credible than Shakespeare as Shakespeare. Their proper existence lies in their creations, and nowhere else.
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And yet Dickens's greatest linguistic creations are solipsists, living in a world of their own and holding no rational exchange with their fellows. After Pecksniff and Mrs. Gamp have spoken there is nothing to reply. Angus Wilson enlarges the point in his superb—and superbly illustrated—critical biography, one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind.
The male verbal maniacs deal in abstractions, in empty rhetoric, as befits man's education. But the women of the species pour out the folklore of their age in concrete images that form a visual mosaic. Mrs. Nickleby's is a mosaic of the folklore of gentility, Flora Finching's of romanticism, Mrs. Gamp's of the lives of the poor…. The squalor, the greed and the brutality of Mrs. Gamp are woven as closely into all the tag ends of religiosity, folk wisdom, macabrerie, coy salaciousness and sickly sentiment that make up her speech, as the brutality of the lives of the Victorian poor was blended with all their desperate attempts to evade it.
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By Lila Bricklin
How to break the knees of a corporate conglomerate?
This was my dilemma at the end of July when I moved, and for six days desperately tried to get Verizon to transfer my good ole' fashioned landline service all the way across the street in Mt. Airy. In the past, it was a simple transaction. Call several weeks before the move, tell them the dates and new address, and voila, when you arrived at your new residence, you just plugged in the phone and there was a dial tone…NO MORE!
As I write this, it's been a week since this sorry saga began. Verizon cut off my service two days before I moved. It took nearly four hours with multiple transfers, speaking with a half-a-dozen Verizon employees from different departments—none of which could communicate with each other—to get my service restored. Like I had nothing else to do!
And this is a communications company?
I confirmed my move date and afternoon appointment for two days later when a technician was to install a couple of new jacks. Everything was set…or so I thought.
The next day, Verizon called with new marching orders. I was informed that service could not be maintained at both locations the day of my move as prearranged and so the cut-off date was extended one day. Still, I was told, the minute I arrived at my new abode, I could plug in my phone to the lone jack and get a dial tone.
So the big day arrived along with a big moving truck and three big men to do the heavy lifting. All was done in three-and-a-half hours on a sultry Friday morning, the last in July. I plugged in my phone.
I was stunned. Having moved three years prior and 10 years before that with no hitches, I couldn't believe I had no phone service. I called Verizon and got the runaround. Exhausted from the move and frustrated to tears, I decided to live with my cell phone for the weekend and start all over on Monday.
As the debt ceiling debate crescendoed, I called Verizon again. I was put on hold for 20 minutes, 30 minutes and even 40 minutes. Then it occurred to me that I was burning up my free cell phone minutes. Indeed, I had used most of my time for the entire month of August. So, I picked up the land line at work, something I normally never do for personal calls. But what was I supposed to do? Have no phone service? I live alone. I couldn't risk it. Verizon promised me I would have service by the time I got home from work on Monday, August 1st.
I didn't!
Tuesday, I started again—spinning my wheels—more holding, disconnects, misinformation and seemingly no way to cut through this morass. Finally I realized I had to circumvent the Verizon bureaucracy. So, I decided to contact Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, the only at-large candidate I voted for last May.
A stroke of genius!
One of her constituent services aides, Candice, was more than willing to try to help. She said she would call me back before 5pm. She did and told me that I was second on the docket for the next day to have a technician come to my apartment building and turn on the juice. I was elated. I asked her how she did it—cut through the Verizon red tape. She hedged a bit and just said a business contact intervened.
Aha! She had a contact that had the authority and/or clout to make it happen. My type of woman. Now, that's what I call good constituent services! The technician arrived the next morning and said his Northeast Philly route was suddenly preempted. He was told to get down to Mt. Airy fast. I explained to him what happened.
And on the sixth day I finally got a dial tone.
Perhaps not as important or difficult as the debt ceiling debate that simultaneously played out during this Verizon debacle, my personal outrage cut a sharp parallel.


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Earl's 'stead: Waltons house sold for $126,500
If you listened to the hype, the little house that auctioneer Bill Bryant was selling in Schuyler last Saturday was "a part of our culture," the representation of "so much nostalgia" and "everything we value in America."
That might seem like a bit much for the three-bedroom, one-bath, cracked-plaster, wobbly-stairs, funky-kitchen, turn-of-the-century place on one-third acre with "public water and sewer."
A bit much, that is, until you realize that the house is the original home of the Hamners, the real family that inspired the Waltons, the television family that warmed the hearts of '70s America.
Making up the 40 or so folks stamping around in the snowy front yard of the old place on December 6 were two or three TV film crews, six or seven print reporters, and about a dozen employees of Lynchburg's Counts Auction and Realty– and two actual bidders. The only member of the original family in evidence was Audrey Hamner "Erin" on the show.
How did she feel about her brother Jim's decision to sell the homestead? "Jim's health is not the best," she said. Did she expect any family members to be bidding? "We've all known Jim was planning to sell it. If anybody had wanted it, they would have bought it by now," she replied.
Perhaps the most famous member of the clan is her brother, Earl Hamner Jr., who wrote the scripts that memoralized his family's hardscrabble Depression optimism. What did he think of the sale?
"I think whatever happens, whoever lives there, inherits warmth, comfort, security and feelings of love. That's something my family can pass on," he said in a phone call from Los Angeles.
Auctioneer Bryant did his best to rev up the somewhat lackluster crowd by mentioning just those things. And while he enthusiastically recounted calls from fans as far away as "Germany and other foreign countries," no dramatic Christies-esque head nods or lapel taps indicated the arrival of intercontinental telephone bids.
Instead, the contest came down to a low-key ping-pong exchange between the two bidders, enlivened by manic shenanigans from Counts' crowd massagers, who flailed their arms, shrieked in ecstacy when the ante was upped, and groaned in despair when the action stalled.
After Bryant got the action under way "Think of all the good times that's been had on this porch" the bids inched up from an opening $91,000 to hover dramatically for what seemed like five minutes at $113,500. More flailing, more mention of the "endless possibilities."
Finally, a woman who identified herself as Pam Rutherford emerged as the victorious new owner with a bid of $123,000.
Rutherford said that she bought the house to "preserve it," but had no plans beyond that. "I bought it to keep it from being torn down," she told the swarming reporters.
Earl Hamner says that while he doesn't know Rutherford, he "finds her plans to fix the house up encouraging."
Not so happy with the outcome were unsuccessful bidders Jim and Lisa Arnold, a Manassas couple who had come looking not so much for a piece of Americana as for a place to live.
Jim Arnold, a truck driver, had heard about the auction only a few days before when he stopped for gas on Rt. 29. "We were going to live here," he said, adding that the short notice had not allowed them time for a home inspection, and they were reluctant to pay any more than their last bid of $122,000 (without the "buyer's premium") "for a place that looks like it needs so much work."
"We might be sorry," Lisa Arnold said wistfully. "It's just what we're looking for."
Auctioneer Bryant mentioned one bit of help they might have had: Bob Vila of This Old House, the original home-makeover show, had allegedly inquired about the sale. "He wouldn't do anything contractual," Bryant said of the man who presided over the long-running PBS show, "but he wants to talk to the buyer about possibilities."
Bryant had said at the beginning of the sale that Jim Hamner "had chosen the auction method to prove the home's true worth."
Who knew that "everything America stands for" could be had for $126,500?
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